AIBU to think Radio 1 is too risqué and inappropriate innuendo?

[ThatFraggle]

On the way to school this morning:
"My nickname was Master Baker" then read out a message from a listener who said that when their grandma had said that her own grandfather had been a master baker they all fell about laughing and she couldn't understand the joke.

This afternoon on the ten minute drive home:
References to BDSM;

I wasn't waving his pole I was waving an actual pole; a window cleaner caught me naked;

"when he was in year 10 a window cleaner caught my friend well you know" "just so listeners know he's making the hand gesture." "Yes well the window cleaner court and doing that and when I said it in my best man speech his mum was not too pleased about it."

And a couple of other things all in ten minutes.

The programs which side with school runs especially it just seems really inappropriate. Yes of course you can always switch stations, but that's not the point the question is am I being a prude or is that an acceptable way to talk on the radio when all ages will be listening?

It's like they're trying too hard to get the 20 something crowd listening or something like that.

Radio 4 is frequently filthy after 6.30 - tonnes of inuendo there!

and as a PO said, Janet and John on radio 4 were hilarious and totally “inappropriate”.

Radio 1 has always been like this - their demographic is something like 16-29? I listened to radio 1 religiously throughout sixth form. I personally really like Dean and Vicky

but I will admit I have recently moved over to (mainly) listening to radio 2… and now I feel old

Have listened to radio 4. The archers were talking about shagging 20 years ago. Shit, bollocks, piss all used regularly. Women's hour can be quite explicit.

I agree...Most pop records when they were actually records were bought by the under 10s. I doubt things have changed given the predominant chart entries by pop idol, bgt, lad baby, boy bands of limited talent and the lack of success in charts charts by some of the big stars who release records with lots of push behind them...I thinking cliff in particular

If you're happy with DC listening to the music played on Radio 1 then a small amount of innuendo that goes over their heads on the school run shouldn't be an issue.

It's like the Simpsons and other shows having jokes in it for adults that would go over the head of any younger viewers.

So the station with the pop music is not for under 18s?
Which one is then, of the licence fee stations?
None of the teens that I work with would dream of listening to R1 anyway. All of them either tune my car radio to Rock FM or listen to Spotify.

Either they are too young to understand it, so it doesn't matter, or they are old enough that they do understand it and it also doesn't matter because they are old enough 🤷‍♀️

And I don't think young teens listen to R1 and the radio much. They all have their own playlists on Spotify etc. and listen on their phones.

Eg. a young child won't get the master baker thing, by the time they do know what a masturbator is they are old enough that they don't need to be shielded from gentle innuendo about it!

Happily the entire adult world doesn't have to cater to children, and parents exist to decide what/what not to show or expose their children to.

the question is am I being a prude or is that an acceptable way to talk on the radio when all ages will be listening?

I think you are being a prude tbh.

Never listened to it.I have Jamie and Amanda on Heart fm on the school run.I like Amanda on it but on the telly she annoys me.

R1 has always been puerile. One of the main shows even had a long-running feature called ‘innuendo bingo’, FFS. The only difference is that you’re getting older, OP, & growing out of it. Perfectly normal. Happens to us all.

Congratulations OP.

You have officially graduated to 'old'.

Radio 1 has always been like this. You just started noticing and caring.

Yes you are being a prude and are probably too old for Radio 1. Just turn the channel over and let people have their fun if that’s what they like to listen to. Radio 1 isn’t for 11 year olds.

You're being too prudish.

When I'm in the car alone I listen to my audiobooks.

Radio 1 is not for family listening - I wouldn't want my 9 and 11yo listening to that, but also at 47 I don't like it either. I listen to radio 2 and that is family friendly. I know it gets criticised a lot but I enjoy the music and most of the presenters.

i think innuendo is a great British radio tradition dating back to Round the Horne and the Navy Lark, and before that the traditions of music hall. Something to be proud of!

I remember Chris Moyles & his sycophants lasciviously fantasising about what they wanted to do to Charlotte Church when she turned 16, then they had a countdown to her birthday. That was dodgy.

He's in Year 7? So 12 years old?! I thought you were going to say he was about 5!! It's def time to chill out, they'll hear FAR worse in the playground. My 9yo DS came home the other day to tell me that '69 is a really funny number, because of SEX', but he had no more understanding of what he was saying than that. Radio 1 is great fun and my kids have all listened to it since they were tiny. There are far worse things out there to worry about.

I'm from the Mark & Lard era of Radio 1.

I don't know how they got away with "Missing Words".

Their version of Money's Too Tight to Mention still kills me now 😂

sorry@ThatFraggle I've just realised it wasn't you who said your DS was in Y7!! Phew!!

Chris Evans was pretty rude on radio 1 in the 90s when I was taking my daughter to school.

There were radio comedy programmes in the 60s that were full of innuendo (The Navy Lark for instance). I didn't get the jokes but knew they were rude. A lot of them used 'polari' a language used by gay men and theatricals when homosexuality was still illegal.

People seem.much more prudish now.

I think Vic and Jordan said they'd been told to not do something smutty during the school drive home times and had to leave it until after 5 the other day. They were bit sneaky on the Generation Game thing today though.

Nothing will ever come close to Mark & Lard lunchtimes at the start of the noughties tbh.

I agree with you OP.

I'll stick to the Today programme then!!!